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70 is safe speed

The proposed 70 mph speed limit on interstate highways is a good idea. These roads were originally designed for long-distance travel at high speeds. Motorists should not take this as permission to drive at 80, however, as driver response time is lessened at that speed - and many tires are stressed at that speed also. In actuality, my observation is that most highway drivers during the day drive at around 75 mph and enforcement seems to be focused at speeds exceeding that.

One thing that does make driving on the interstates dangerous right now is that too many drivers use a cell phone while driving rather than paying attention to what other drivers are doing. Especially disturbing is seeing someone entering the highway while on the phone, not even looking at the flow of traffic, just expecting others to avoid hitting them. This is particularly dangerous, downright stupid even, and such drivers should be ticketed for inattentive driving.

James Tobin

Town of Wilson

Marketplace insurance

The silence of the details regarding the cost of the impending marketplace to purchase insurance is deafening. Those who need coverage through this vehicle have not seen any real information on purchasing or comparing prices for coverage. The opening date to apply is Oct. 1, so wouldn't it be nice to see what it's going to cost? Replacing policies and plans are easy - it's supplying the plan to replace it that seems to be difficult.

Barb Hengst

Sheboygan

Destroy, but enjoy

Happy Labor Day to all in the working and middle class. I wonder how many of the union haters and wealthy exploiters are celebrating Labor Day today. Labor Day was conceived as a day not only to celebrate the accomplishments of American labor, but also as a day for workers to air grievances about working conditions, hours and/or pay.

Given that the first Labor Day celebration was completely organized by the (New York) Central Labor Union in 1882, and since Labor Day was established as a national holiday by Congress and signed into law by President Cleveland in 1894 at the active urging of labor unions, I would think that the Walkerites, the wealthy and the union busters would reject the holiday altogether. But they don't. They're happy to enjoy the benefits gained by unions in the past while they destroy them in the present.

David Henning

Sheboygan

Health care 'reform'

Your front page story, "Baldwin leads protest against cuts to rural hospitals," gives us a look into the future where all medical decisions will be between you and your politician. When too big to fail GM took taxpayer money, congressional cronyism determined whose dealership would close. Now GM is trying to disentangle itself from its federal cronies, but the intimate relationship between our government and our health care system is just beginning.

Unless the Republicans in the house can defund the Obamacare mess before it destroys what is left of our infinitely complex health care ecosystem, we're in for a lot more headlines about politicians promising to reform their reform of our health care system.

Art DeJong

Sheboygan

No exclusions

How can anyone say it is needed to have the NSA spying on all of us, and then make an exception like this? Obama's NSA snooping excludes mosques. Mosques being off limits isn't something he can't blame on Bush either, his usual way of avoiding the blame himself. Kind of defeats the purpose of protecting Americans from snooping by those who would do us harm, when 95 percent of terrorism in this country is from Muslims.

If gun control is ever passed, may God forbid, would the Muslims be exempt from this, too? This is akin to Obamacare being for all of us except the President, his family, and Congress. Our laws should be the same for all.

Jack Wirtz

Sheboygan

Costs too much

Some issues are so simple it's amazing we don't hear a lot more about it. The president's advisers should explain to him that if I spend $80 for gas for my truck, instead of $20, that's $60 I don't spend on food, golf, baseball game, lots more. That's $60 every time; and before you lefties point to the obvious, no I can't pull our trailer with a Prius.

George Kren

Oostburg

Driven by fear

Should we be known as the United States of Fear? How is it that so many of us are so easily frightened? Not by the real threats like ill health, financial misfortune, job loss, etc. Politicians (of both parties), advertisers, and even some "men of the cloth" routinely use fear to drive us like sheep to further their own selfish ends.

And too many of us follow without a second thought. Doesn't sound like "home of the brave, land of the free," does it? Scientists would say this is the reptilian brain survival instinct in action. I would call it lack of reason. Get out of your comfort zone and mix with people who don't look like you. You will learn from them and they from you. And when that physical/cultural barrier is overcome, you may find we have more in common than you ever thought possible.

Mark Briese

Sheboygan

Selective grandstanding

Since the tragic shooting in Florida of a 17-year-old black youth, the rhetoric coming from the White House, Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and others, in my opinion have been extremely racially divisive. However; the conversation, or more correctly non-conversation, coming from the same individuals concerning the needless shooting of a 17-month-old white child and the thrill shooting of the young Australian college ballplayer in Oklahoma by some black youths, (and one white) is equally disturbing. This to me is selective grandstanding, because if they were truly motivated for equality they would speak up for both sides.

Norman Veldboom

Oostburg

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